Edmodo
Character Poem
I am from a beach community
north of Boston
where simple folks live
I am from where sand and America
meet
I am from bygone era
where women wear their age
proudly
veins and wrinkles displayed
I’m from numbers and rules
punch prices and totals
I’m from the collector
and the assessor
from Next! and More Quarters!
I’m from Monotony that
robs me of my life
I’m from the curious
and the compassionate
sometimes suppressed
to go along with
life
One day, I woke up and found
random act of
unkindness
so wrong
gave up this life
in this humble beach town
The old Man
The old man keep his hand
he was afraid
he stood up
His hand was dried
He knelt down and found
his left hand
cut stripes
back of his head
they were wedge shaped strips
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I believe in freedom of creativity.
The fantasy,
The crazy
The amazing
The baby has more fantasy, craziness, and creativity.
I believe in conquering the world.
I believe in destroying the world.
I believe in people dying
And I believe in people kill each other with creativity to survive.
Sound
Fishes blubs blubs
Breath blubs blubs
Eats blubs blubs
Swims blubs blubs
Dies blubs blubs
Reflection Walt Whitman
This poem is talking about individuality and equality, especially between men and women. It begins by celebrating individuality. This is done by emphasizing the individual (“one’s self,” “simple,” “separate,” “Person.”) But he also talks about society as a whole (“democratic, the word en masse”) Next he talks about the importance of society as a whole and how one part is not any more valuable than the other. “Of physiology from top to toe I sing; Not physiognomy along, nor brain alone . . . the Form is complete is far worthier” He makes a connection between the value of a “complete” society and how in that society men and women are regarded in the same manner. In the last part, he talks about how in this society of equality and individuality, life will be filled with passion and energy. In such society, people will be happy because they will have freedom. He ends by praising this society (“the Modern Man I sing”)
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O Captain! My Captain!
1
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
5
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
2
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
10
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
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You’ve fallen cold and dead.
3
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
20
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead
Because I could not stop for Death (712)
by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –
Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
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Innocent
People were screaming,
moving around in the desert heat
they had come into town riding black horses
kicking up dust flying in faces
they put the fear of God in the people of this town
they robbed they killed they took
the pack leader was a monster
sheriff was ready this time
his beast well tamed and he stroked it picturing what’s to come
locked up in the holster
the best was itching, it was eager, it was ready for a fight
bang bang bang
loud thunderous roar was heard from the mouth spark was seen
the beast spit out its venom then another on.
it shot against the wind... speeding through the air
the venom struck the target
penetrated the flesh overflow of dark cherry red ocean gushed
the target fell covered in red
still was his face bleary were his eyes
the moment was silent
he whispered his last words “but i’m innocent....”
“no you ain’t” said the sheriff softly
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Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
ex: Daisy was Dancing Delightfully
Allusion: expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly: indirectly.
ex: my grandmother is like a scrooge
Figurative Language: Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal
meaning of the words. The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas, in such as way as to evoke mental images
ex: I am so hungry that I can eat a horse
Free Verse: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
ex: diary
Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
ex:
What Am I?
I’m bigger than the entire earth
More powerful than the sea
Though a million, billion have tried
Not one could ever stop me.
I control each person with my hand
and hold up fleets of ships.
I can make them bend to my will
with one word from my lips.
I’m the greatest power in the world
in this entire nation.
No one should ever try to stop
a child’s imagination.
Imagery: Visual symbolism
ex: the lake was left shivering by freezing wind of the night
Lyric: Expressing the writer’s emotions
ex: william Shakespeare's poem
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
ex: broken heart
Mood: feeling
ex: happy sad
Onomatopoeia: The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named, use the word to describe the sound
ex: buzz, click, cuckoo, sizzle
Oxymoron: speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
ex: little to big
Paradox: Inconsistent
ex:I can resist anything but temptation
Personification: The attribution of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
ex: mushrooms’s poem
Repetition: The recurrence of an action
ex: I;m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there’s a pair of us don’t tell!
..........
from “ I am nobody”
Rhythm: types of pattern formed by such arrangement
Hiawatha’s Depature from the of Hiatha by Henry.
Simile: A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
ex: Egg yolk was like a sun
Stanza: a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
ex:group of three lines of order
Symbol: a sign or character to represent something like organization
oh captain. My Captain (ship symbolizes America)
Tone: how is sounds, How it can be heard
ex: happy sad hyper exciting
Understatement: The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
say something strong but casually